With Thanksgiving coming up next week, I imagine many of you are in a bit of a panic, looking at your “lived in” home and wondering how you will ever get it into shape in time for next week’s onslaught of guests. (I certainly am!) At a talk I gave earlier this year, a woman asked me how to ensure that she and her husband regularly keep their apartment free of clutter. I advised her to give a dinner party once…
Read more →Every year, from Thanksgiving until New Year’s, the business pages of the newspaper are filled with prognistications of whether holiday retail sales will meet expectations. In 2011, holiday sales represented 20% of total retail industry sales. For some retailers, holiday purchases represent 40% of annual sales. Those people are allowed to stress out about the holidays. But why are the rest of us so stressed out?
Read more →As a Professional Organizer and Productivity Expert, I am always on the lookout for products that have multiple functions or that make life easier. Thus I was particularly impressed with two types of gloves that I came across recently. Do you have an iPhone or other electronic device with a touch screen? Frustrated at having to remove a glove to use it? Then you’ll be interested to know that several companies make gloves that can be left on when operating…
Read more →Introducing my new e-book, Small Spaces, Fast Paces: New York Organizing Secrets. This book contains the first two years worth of my “Organizing Tip of the Week”. That’s 95 tips, organized into 13 topics, and easily navigatable thanks to the wonders of technology! Why should you buy my e-book?
Read more →New Year’s Resolutions have become a cliché. Everybody makes them . . . and everybody breaks them! How many times have you made a solemn vow to yourself on January 1st, only to give up in frustration by January 8th? Here are an organizer’s guidelines to making New Year’s Resolutions that stick.
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